_________________"If the people allow private banks to control their currency the banks and corporations will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

I worry about my heating oil company. 'The Oil Administration' plus big oil companies are squeezing the life out of small gas and oil companies. I know my heating oil company has been on the ropes for some time now--I just hope they can survive.

Prices have "settled" at about $4.15 here. Local Repug politicos are fearing the worse in repercussions and playing the illegal immigration card for all they're worth. Even our local congress critter looks vulnerable with some chance that McWarSameBush might not win Arizona. Now that would be a change I could live with.

_________________“I'm not a member of any organized party. I'm a Democrat.”-Will Rogers

Prices have "settled" at about $4.15 here. Local Repug politicos are fearing the worse in repercussions and playing the illegal immigration card for all they're worth. Even our local congress critter looks vulnerable with some chance that McWarSameBush might not win Arizona. Now that would be a change I could live with.

Every time I turn on TV I hear Repugs, like the clanging gongs they are, shouting "we have to drill, drill, drill." Seems media doesn't like to talk about the millions of acres already in the hands of oil companies that are just sitting there. Nice little piece of money in the bank for tomorrow for those companies. Like Brain of Pinky and the Brain, they want to take over the world!!!

I am sure illegal immigration is a huge issue in AZ. If we hadn't destroyed Mexicans livelihoods even more severely than we have done in the U.S., there wouldn't be anyone wanting to come over the border. Again, Rs don't want to look at that part of the issue.

I have never heard of Marathon. Is it a regular gasoline company? We have Hess up here that generally sells a few cents cheaper than other stations.

As for rolling McMansions, people who have money are feeling no pinch. They have as many toys as they always have had. I wonder if they ever are in touch with the realities most people have to live with?